Poll: Blogs, Entries, Posts, Comments, or Replies

[jesse_the_k]

When I prepare to publish something here, I think "I'm writing a post." When my gentle readers respond to what I've written, I think "they're making comments." Yet the official Dreamwidth vocabulary is not so straightforward. These are the things that keep me up at night!

To publish the current item, I tapped the "Post" link on the navigation bar. The next screen is called "Create Entries," yet the final action button is called "Post a $securitylevel Entry." With each entry I control who responds with "Comment" settings, yet the relevant FAQ talks about "replies."

One of Dreamwidth's quirkier features is how you can customize much of the user interaction texts https://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=text My favorite example is sovay, who titles the Comment/Reply function "Performable Epic."

Poll #20999 What Do YOU Call It?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

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When you visit this platform, what are you reading?

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A blog
6 (14.0%)

A journal
22 (51.2%)

A Dreamwidth
6 (14.0%)

A diary
1 (2.3%)

@jesse_the_k's stuff
2 (4.7%)

Will explain in comments
6 (14.0%)

The basic unit of communication on Dreamwidth is

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a post
32 (72.7%)

an entry
11 (25.0%)

a squee
0 (0.0%)

a topic
0 (0.0%)

a moan
0 (0.0%)

Will explain in comments
1 (2.3%)

When you're moved to respond after you're done reading whatever the previous item is called, are you making a

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comment
42 (97.7%)

reply
0 (0.0%)

response
0 (0.0%)

big deal about nothing
0 (0.0%)

Will explain in comments
1 (2.3%)

How does this poll strike you?

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irrelevant
2 (4.8%)

fanciful
16 (38.1%)

ticky box
34 (81.0%)

Comments

Hooray! I was hoping you

[jesse_the_k]

...or someone else involved in FAQ-creation would weigh in.

Thanks for providing historical context. I can breathe an editorial sigh of relief.

Re: Hooray! I was hoping you

[rainbow]

♥ most welcome!

i just realised i meant to common on the journal/blog/etc thing.

if i'm referring to your account here, i'd say/write "jesse-the-k's dw", similar to what i do (did) in referring to [person's] lj.

if pressed i would use the word "journal" -- but only because of the livejournal history of calling the accounts journals, not because they are like actual journals to me (which, ime, are private things. ditto diaries in general).

a blog is more standalone to me. if i go to something like a wordpress blog, it doesn't seem as interactive as lj/dw. i don't know if there is a way to make a feed that shows you friends/folks you follow in a tidy calendar order, since blogs in general are confusing for me. they seem more like separate sites, too, not one big can be interactive or not site.